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Album Reviews
[WHITE JAZZ] Less than a decade removed
from titillating dowagers at Union Station’s piano bar, Storm Large has
so successfully bum-rushed the global celebrity apparatus that her side
projec
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A playlist-assisted guide to the week's best concerts for Sept. 3-9.

Music
Want to see some live music? Below, you'll find our picks for the best concerts coming through Portland this week, along with a Spotify playlist of representative songs from each artist.WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3 Salif Keita [MANDINKA MASTER] One of the reigning deities of Afropop, the Mansa of Mali, Salif Keita, who just turned 65, is still innovating. After earlier incorporating funk, jazz, ...
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The band's weekend shows at Oregon Zoo will continue as scheduled.

Music
Derek Rieth, for two decades a percussionist in Portland pop orchestra Pink Martini, has died, the band announced via its Facebook page this afternoon. Rieth, born in 1971, played several instruments for the band, including drums, bongos and finger cymbals. No cause of death is being released at this time, according to the Multnomah County Medical Examiner. "[Rieth]'s enormous heart and ...
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Books
Storm Large is not a stranger to anyone with tenure in Portland’s music and arts scene. Her new memoir, Crazy Enough (Free
Press, 288 pages, $25), painstakingly details how Large came to be the
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Getting off, snorting up and wrestling with family demons—excerpts from Storm Large’s new memoir.

Cover Story
Storm Large is calling from the Four Seasons in New York,
where she is having lunch. “I’m looking at Martha Stewart, Tom Brokaw,
Vernon Jordan,” she says. “I’m in a den of 1 percenters.
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News
Many 1 percenters and their employees and friends showed up in support of Occupy Portland on Friday afternoon in Pioneer Courthouse Square to singalong with Storm Large, Pink Martini and members of the Oregon Symphony. ---Members of the actual Occupy Portland encampment were almost nowhere to be seen, lost in a crowd of Columbia-, Nike- and Ugg-wearing spectators sipping the free coffee donated by ...
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Congressmen and religious leaders will also attend

Music
Earlier this month, Salon ran a brief but interesting piece noting the minor role music has played at the Occupy protests—in contrast to the protest song-heavy civil rights struggle—and asking if any great folk singers would emerge from the Occupy protests. --- That question remains unanswered, but here in Portland at least we know that some of our highest-profile artists are working (heh) in concert ...
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News
For several weeks now, Storm Large has been appearing on stage in L.A. at the Mark Taper forum, in a revue called "Harps and Angels" of songs by Randy Newman, the pop singer/composer/pianist. Large performs along with Michael McKean and Katey Sagal (best known as the mom on Married . . . with Children). The reviews? The Los Angeles Times did a strange thing and reviewed the show by asking Newman ...
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News
Last night's 30th Anniversary Drammy Awards was, as usual, a rowdy, largely inebriated affair, though (thank heavens!) shorter than last year. Attendants at the annual ceremony recognizing "outstanding achievement in Portland theater" wore outlandish costumes, most everyone appeared to have a good time, and no one from Artists Repertory Theatre bothered to show up to collect the company's four awards. ...
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